Jari Jumpponen

• Lappeenranta – Lahti University of Technology LUT

A relatively high percentage of Baltic corporations have already started their operations abroad, over 40% of the companies studied. It is surprising that the approaching EU membership does not seem to be the driving force of the Baltic corporations? internationalization, though the EU is clearly the major export destination. The empirical evidence...

Previous studies have shown that long-term planning, collaborative supplier relationships and supply management capabilities reflect the strategic role and importance of purchasing and supply management (PSM) in firms, regardless of the nature of the business. This study examines how these elements behave in different business environments, such as...

There is a multitude of literature related to transit traffic. In many studies, the reasons for transit traffic have been identified and the criteria for selecting a certain route have been explored. However, the dynamics of the criteria has remained relatively untapped. Moreover, only a few studies concentrate on transit traffic route selection fr...

Russian business activities abroad are expanding rapidly. The recorded FDI outflow from Russia was $3bn in 2000, and is expected to increase. This article describes foreign operations of some 15 of Russia's most internationalised corporations, and discusses the role of their foreign activities in integrating Russia with the global economy. Since th...

This paper focuses on the management of small businesses in Russia. Despite the growing importance of the Russian small business sector, there are surprisingly few empirical studies focusing on this topic. As the business environment in Russia is repeatedly noted to be in constant change, the purpose of the paper is to explore Russian owner‐manager...

When a foreign company enters Russia, it has plenty of choices for choosing a favourable location. A country with 17 million square kilometres, 33 cities with more than 0,5 million inhabitants and 89 different administrative regions contains a wide selection of alternatives. Even though these 89 regions have different resources, there are apparent...

The external conditions facing the transition economies slightly improved on balance during the year 2004. The eight new EU member states of Central and Eastern Europe (NMS-8) recorded higher GDP growth (5% on average) than in the previous year, largely thanks to expanding domestic demand - in particular of investment (Czech Republic, Hungary and L...

Direct investment outflow from transition economies abroad is still modest compared to investment inflow towards transition economies. Global economy both creates preconditions for and also motivates the internatio¬nalization of banks. The main aim of the article is to study activities of Estonian and Russian commercial banks in their efforts to tr...

A relatively high percentage of Baltic corporations have already started their operations abroad, over 40% of the companies studied. It is surprising that the approaching EU membership docs not seem to be the driving force of the Baltic corporations’ internationalization, though the EU is clearly the major export destination. The empirical evidence...

A relatively high percentage of Baltic corporations have already started their operations abroad, over 40% of the companies studied. It is surprising that the approaching EU membership docs not seem to be the driving force of the Baltic corporations’ internationalization, though the EU is clearly the major export destination. The empirical evidence...

In this paper we will present the preliminary results of a study focusing on Russian-owned businesses in Finland. We are introducing the results as such, but also by reflecting them on the previous research on immigration entrepreneurship. The results implicate that Russian immigration entrepreneurship has several distinguished characteristics of i...